Kaepernick has Nike pull American flag shoe.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

If Nike had simply produced and sold the shoes, the useful idiots would have still been equally as mad at Nike (and vocally so)?

The shoe is, clearly, relevant. Nike is, clearly, relevant. Both more so due to this bit of advertising (and the role of Useful Idiot).

I simply laid out what went down. You called that a lie due to some argument you're fighting in your head that I don't give a shit about. NONE of what I said wasn't true and you know that.

Nike [and the shoe] is simply a vessel, an avatar for the social dynamic.

If Nike had held firm on releasing the shoe and the failed QB had pressed his case through other media/communication outlets, and the media coverage and presidential candidate approval of the notion of the white supremacy of Betsy Ross had played out similarly, people would still be 'mad' at the ill-informed fomenting of discord.

You're not interested in the 'argument I'm having in my head' because it accurately reflects the thought people are putting into their discontent and you prefer your narrative of the knee-jerk unthinking useful idiot who just hears that a shoe is pulled from the market and flies into a blind rage.